Interesting Ways to use QR Codes to Support Learning

1. Interesting Ways  to use QR Codes to Support Learning

2. qrcode.kaywa.com     or  qrstuff.com There are many online tools for generating QR codes which you can then use in the classroom.  All of these different types of information can be stored in a code: •  A short piece of text •  Website address •  Email address •  Phone number Use a QR Code Generator

3. http://www.qrstuff.com/ http://www.qrstuff.com/  Color Code     Use the excellent QR Stuff website to make colored QR codes. Use different colors for websites and resources in different subjects. You can then see which QR codes belong to certain subjects and will help you organize lots of them in the classroom.

4. If your school uses blogs or any online publishing tool, create qr-codes to stick in the exercise books to link analogue to digital. Visitors, Inspectors, SIPs, Subject Leaders can then see the whole picture of learning. Year 6 at Heathfield do this, this is what their books look like:

5. Learning Targets – Voice Recorded Stick a QR code wherever there is a child's learning target or goal. E.g. at the front of a their text book or on a wall display. Link to an audio or video recording explaining what their target is and the steps and strategies to achieve it. I have used this to give year 1 children support information for individual writing targets. Click herefor more details and access the level 1 writing codes / audio files. _ http://primarypete.net/qr-codes-for-individual-targets

6. . Put some QR codes around the school. One in the entrance - linking to a text of the school mission statement or URL of school website. One in the corridor - linking to school vision. One (or more) outside every classroom with planning of work being completed within, audio of music compositions or poetry recitals, slideshows of artwork etc. One in the hall with an associated video clip/snippet of the Christmas/end of year show. One in the library with associated audio clips of pupil book reviews. ...others that you will inevitably think of. Give visitors/inspectors a device when they arrive

7.  - Link to Dropbox Tried this idea recently. I found I could place a scary sound story into the public folder in Dropbox, generate a QR code and it plays the file direct.

8. Use QR codes to provide quick access to e-portfolios of - • a culmination of student work • a display of lesson plans or projects implemented while student teaching • showcase career highlights of lessons, documents, projects, awards and photos of students in action as a professional resume   - Electronic/Online Portfolios Print these QR codes on the back of business cards for students to hand to prospective employers.

9. I am a Family and Consumer Sciences educator. Before I allow my students to participate using the ($500.00) Baby Think It Over simulator, I make them carry Egg Babies for a week. I have always put secret markings on the eggs to ensure the same eggs come back at the end of the week. This year I decide it didn’t need to be a secret. This is the result. It was awesome! Kids were so curious they were scanning as soon as they got them. Next time, I will make a personal video QR Code for each student!  Tag Your Resources

10. Use Google's URL shortening service to shorten a URL for use in a QR code - thus creating a lower density code. This will generate a QR Code that is easier to read by mobile devices and allow you to track usage of the link / QR code Just click on "details" next to the shortened URL for the QR code and tracking figures.  - Use Google

11. Provide a Service Integrate QR with a PBL or Service Learning project where students can create the codes that will link to the content they create. If students helped create awareness around spreading germs, for example, they might put the codes around the school or in a parent newsletter. They can take it a step further by creating codes for a local business or organization.

12. Show Exemplars You can create QR for linking students to examples of quality work, whether it's PowerPoint or slideshare for a class presentation, or people speaking a foreign language specific to your current lesson.

13. Incentivize and Praise Award prizes by having students scan a code leading to an animation or badge. When they pass a test on commas, perhaps they get a code that takes them to a badge for Comma Guru! Students can even create their own codes to award each other. When a student sees something great happen, they can give a code that links to messages such as "Good Job from Andrew" and "Thanks for doing your part for the team."

14. Make Learning Stations Put codes in different areas of the room that will take students to different online activities, videos or content. Using a great tool like Internet Reciprocal Teaching Rubric or a Graphic Organizer will help facilitate their interaction with the linked content. http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/graphic_organizers http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/carnegie/documents/IRT.pdf

15. Check Answers and Reflect Have students check their answers by scanning the QR code after completing a test or assignment. As a teacher, you can visually confirm when students are checking their work and can also check in to see how they are doing. This will help track individual learning and can provide an opportunity for you to facilitate student reflection.

16. Provide Extension Assignments A great way to provide optional activities for students who want to excel is to simply put the code on the class assignment and let them follow it to the extension activity or question. It won't take up much space, and might facilitate a little excitement about the extension assignment.

17. Compile Research Have students create codes linking to items discovered during research. These could be posted in class wikis on a specific topic, or on a wall in the classroom. It helps give them ownership of the research process and literally creates "walls that talk."

18. Differentiate Instruction Perhaps you have a poem for students to analyze. You can provide additional scaffolding with a link to a recitation or focused questions to get them started. Use the QR to help you manage differentiation of the various strategies in your tool belt of teacher practices.